Edwin Cross - Air Bent Around Brass - Red Note Jazz

Описание: Air Bent Around Brass is presented as a single, continuous argument shaped by proportion, friction, and restraint. The recording treats sound as material under pressure, where density and spacing carry equal weight. Each gesture exists in relation to the whole, favoring internal balance over display.

This work is a conceptual ensemble recording realized through human artistic direction in dialogue with artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is used strictly as a formal analytical and generative instrument, applied to examine pattern, proportional tension, ensemble behavior, and long form balance. All aesthetic decisions remain subordinate to human judgment, historical awareness, and compositional intent.

The album is framed as an archival object rather than a document of a session. Its language draws from early 1960s European jazz concerns, emphasizing clarity, structural risk, and collective negotiation. Nothing here aims to resolve comfortably. Instead, the record sustains attention through measured instability, where brass, space, and pressure remain in deliberate conversation.

Tracklist

Bent Air Study

Brass Under Strain

Fractured Entry

Static Before Motion

Compressed Distance

Angled Breath

Gray Field Argument

Pressure Without Pulse

Asymmetrical Advance

Held Resistance

Sudden Density

Red Axis

Suspended Direction

Narrow Passage

Disrupted Balance

Paper Surface Tension

Force Without Weight

Crossing Vectors

Delayed Impact

Unsettled Plane

Internal Collision

Oblique Release

Fixed Instability

Residual Motion

Final Compression

Conceptual Ensemble
Trumpet
Alto saxophone
Tenor saxophone
Trombone
Piano
Double bass
Drums

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